Product Description: Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music

Product Description: Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music

Product Description: (Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). Medium voice, cello, violin, and piano

Product Description: Ned Rorem (born 1923) is one of the most accomplished and prolific of American art song composers. This selection of songs is suitable for student singers. Contents list is the same for High and Medium/Low Voice editions. Contents: Ferry me across the water * Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair * A Journey * Little Elegy * Look down, fair moon * Love * Nantucket * The Nightingale * O Do Not Love Too Long * Poem for F...read more

Product Description: One of the most prolific and respected of American art song composers, Ned Rorem (b. 1923) is finally represented in a substantial, representative collection.

Product Description: (Boosey & Hawkes Voice). One of the most prolific and respected of American art song composers, Ned Rorem is finally represented in a substantial, representative collection, which includes many newly published transpositions, and six songs never before published: Chromatic Fantasy * The End * On a Little Bird * Poem for F...read more

Product Description: One of the most prolific and respected of American art song composers, Ned Rorem is finally represented in a substantial, representative collection.

A latest diary by a leading living composer discusses his grief after the loss of his lifetime companion, the international celebration of his eightieth birthday, and his observations on an array of performers, writers, and artists.

Product Description: Ned Rorem, composer and writer, is both a gifted memoirist and one of our most acerbic cultural commentators. This anthology of his musings on music, people, and life surveys the full range of his literary achievement and reflects the evolution of his sensibilities...read more

One of the nation's most important living composers shares his correspondence with Paul Bowles, Leontyne Price, Virgil Thomson, Reynolds Price, Angela Lansbury, Judy Collins, Cynthia Ozick, and Gore Vidal, among others.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, author, and president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters shares his diary of the years between sixty-two and seventy-five years of age, mourning the passing of his friends, dealing with the indignities of aging, and discussing the decline of the taste and standards that once defined his artistic circle. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Ned Rorem is celebrated as one of America's greatest living composers. His diary of his early years, The Paris Diary and the New York Diary, was widely acclaimed. The Later Diaries continues one of the most sustained efforts in the intimate journal form ever undertaken and offers candid insights into his astonishing life, career, art, friendships, and love. In these years, Lions, Miss Julie, and Poems of Love and the Rain were composed and most of his books written; he also continued to meet the famous and infamous and to write of them with the charm that Janet Flanner characterized as "worldly, intelligent, licentious, highly indiscreet." (view table of contents)

Product Description: When The Paris Diary exploded on the scene in 1966 there had never been a book in English quite like it: Its intimate combination of personal, literary, and social insights was unprecedented. Rorem's self-portrait of the artist as a young man, written between 1951 and 1955, was also a mirror of the times, depicting the now vanished milieu of Cocteau, Eluard, Gide, Landowska, Boulez, the Vicomtesse de Noailles, and others whose paths crossed with Rorem's in such settings as Paris, Morocco, and Italy...read more

A collection of essays, reviews, 'thought pieces,' and obituaries relating to the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer demonstrates the range of his talents and considers his many friendships. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: One of America's most brilliant composers and diarists recreates the vibrancy, intrigues, and extraordinary accomplishments of the art world, the gay world, and the music world in New York and Paris during the 1940s and 1950s, offering vivid portraits of Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Paul and Jane Bowles, Truman Capote, and other leading figures of his generation...read more

Discusses Gershwin, Copland, Flanagan, Barber, Bernstein, Cage, Debussy, Ravel, Straus, Stravinsky, Toscanini, Britten, popular music, and the future of music

Selections from the diaries of the American composer share his thoughts on music, current events, literature, friends, and fellow composers

A distinquished American composer presents a selection of personal observations on the people around him and essays on the lives and work of such musicians as Stravinsky, Copland, Boulez, and Debussy

Product Description: Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 383 pages; Description: 383 p. ; 24 cm...read more